07Oct Canon EOS-M HDMI output
A few people were asking about the HDMI output of the Canon EOS-M. In this case I have the magic lantern overlays enabled, but basically it’s a cropped 1080p signal that’s very similar to the Canon 7d‘s hdmi output. There isn’t any change to the hdmi output when you hit record and no blinking to deal with.
Because the resolution is still 1080p (cropped), the 1:1 scaling on the Sony CLM-V55 monitor still works. One quick press and you can have the image shown without scaling. This gives you an 800×480 view of the center of the cropped 1080p signal making it pretty easy to check focus.
Like most other Canon cameras (5d mark III excluded) you lose the on camera display as soon as you connect the HDMI monitor. This aspect does make menu navigation a little tricky on the Canon EOS-M‘s touch heavy interface when trying to change settings. Basically you have to hit the Q button a few times until you get to the settings you’re looking for then click and scroll your way through menu’s and make changes 1 setting at a time. Not exactly the best way to make changes, but still doable if you plan on using a field monitor.
Magic Lantern menus are accessed with a two finger touch. So if you need to adjust feature in the Magic Lantern menu, you should make those changes before you plug in a monitor.
October 7th, 2013 at 10:40 am
Hi Deejay,
I can’t find Magic Lantern for eos M , where do you download it?
October 7th, 2013 at 11:12 am
Download 2.3 from magic lantern’s site, then get the latest nightly build here and copy the nightly files into the 2.3 folder.
October 7th, 2013 at 11:45 am
Thanks a lot, It’s a bit confusing in their forum.
October 8th, 2013 at 4:04 am
It’s because they havn’t officially released a stable version of ML. If they had, it would be so much easier.
October 10th, 2013 at 3:33 am
Thanks for this test DeeJay! but I couldn’t wait, I went out and pickup a body only for $234! 🙂 also got a nikon F, m42 and electronic EF adapter, I LOVE IT! 4GB spanning, 1080 HDMI out, lightweight, a shallow flange, magic lantern and a 40MB/s UHS card bus makes this little guy a very useful video tool. I’m even grabbing this over a 5D3 recently, thinking of getting two lol
Hopefully they’ll get ml raw on it soon, then it would be the perfect B cam to the Blackmagic Pocket
October 11th, 2013 at 12:35 pm
Hi – I’m also very interested in getting a clean 1080 output via HDMI, but with the latest Magic Lantern build I tried (8-October)I can’t seem to achieve it; I’ve managed to get a clean overlay-free output, but it’s not at 1080 resolution.
I’d be really grateful if you could run through your setings that gave you a 1080 output.
Many thanks
January 27th, 2014 at 6:21 pm
The Output will be cropped 1080p, there is no option (as of yet) to full scale the hdmi output- this means that you have to record and then crop/scale the video when you edit. Also (FYI) the hdmi out does not carry audio. While your testing, please try the ML Controller app for us and post back on the findings (if you could).
October 23rd, 2013 at 8:20 pm
Does anyone know if HDMI monitoring works when the camera is running the Magic Lantern raw module?
January 20th, 2014 at 9:52 pm
Hey there, Im planning to grab one of these up for our video production to replace the canon t3i we gave to one of our branch studios. Question about this little guy: Is the “clear overlay” option for ML available for the eos m? Also, is the output 1080p 60 fps? We use an atem tvs for switching and its really picky. Thanks in advance guys
January 21st, 2014 at 7:25 am
Haven’t tried out the latest magic lantern firmware on the EOS-M, it’s still out on loan. If you are running it into a switcher wouldn’t you want a full 1080p output, not some cropped version?
January 21st, 2014 at 10:06 am
Well, to be honest- we bought 2 canon 60d and then we found out the image was cropped. So we basically need to have the rest matching. We still route from the atem mixer to wirecast where we can crop/scale the feed for our live broadcast. Please ask your loan-ee if they could possibly test it? I found another forum saying they connected the camera to atem successfully.
January 25th, 2014 at 7:28 pm
Hi everyone, i tested ml controller on samsung galaxy s4 connected to canon 60d by usb and hdmi out to atem tvs. The good news is that it works, although strangely there was no options for control. Only useful as a monitor. Also, I tested on samsung galaxy tablet but it did not work. I also tried htc but no go either. Im hoping that maybe someone has a solution out there for using generic android tablets. An A13 512mb android 4.0 tablet on ebay runs about $50. Any ideas?
April 24th, 2016 at 4:23 pm
Hi! Thank you for this post!
English is not my main language, so I couldn’t really understand the technical aspect of this post.
Say I buy a 1080p monitor. Will the preview be completely fullscreen? What about a 1280×800 monitor? And a 800×480?
Thank you very much,
Gabriel Ludwick